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What is Shadow IT and How Does SaaS Monitoring Help?

The dawn of the SaaS-first era, paired with the proliferation of Software as a Service (SaaS) applications, has undoubtedly reshaped the business landscape. Organizations now have an arsenal of SaaS tools at their disposal—everything from email to CRMs, to file sharing to AI tools that make their job easier. These SaaS tools foster innovation, streamline workflows, and ultimately drive profitability.

How to Secure Your CI/CD Pipeline: Best Tips and Practices

CI/CD pipelines have become a cornerstone of agile development, streamlining the software development life cycle. They allow for frequent code integration, fast testing and deployment. Having these processes automated help development teams reduce manual errors, ensure faster time-to-market, and deliver enhancements to end-users. However, they also pose risks that could compromise stability of their development ecosystem.

Apply real-time updates to Datadog components with Remote Configuration

Datadog provides you with a comprehensive and highly customizable platform for monitoring the performance and security of your applications. Through Datadog components deployed in your environment—including the Agent, tracing libraries, and Observability Pipelines workers—you can easily configure monitoring across your hosts and services, regardless of the particular technology you’re using.

Cron Monitoring Now Supports Sentry SDKs, Multi-Environments, Timezones and More

Last year we introduced Sentry Cron Monitoring (beta) to help developers get code-level context and performance trends for their scheduled jobs. While Crons remains in beta, we’ve heard your feedback over the past few months and want to share some big improvements we’ve shipped. In this post, we’ll cover how we’ve simplified the setup process by integrating Crons into our SDKs and automating monitor setup for select frameworks.

Kubernetes Architecture Part 2: Control Plane Components

This Kubernetes Architecture series covers the main components used in Kubernetes and provides an introduction to Kubernetes architecture. After reading these blogs, you’ll have a much deeper understanding of the main reasons for choosing Kubernetes as well as the main components that are involved when you start running applications on Kubernetes. This blog series covers the following topics.

Tire Profiles thanks Site24x7 for its incredible support in monitoring its hybrid cloud deployments

Jamie MacFarland, director of system administration and security for the US-based tire alignment industry leader, Tire Profiles LLC, uses Site24x7 to monitor deployments spread across multiple cloud services and on-premises servers. MacFarland praises Site24x7 for its single-pane-of-glass view for monitoring all its cloud data, its AppLogs that support an exhaustive list of log types, and the swift and responsive support team. "We are delighted and can't imagine doing our business successfully without ".